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This Hampshire home was designed by the same architect who worked for the dukes of Marlborough, Bedford and St Albans — and it's surrounded by Gertrude Jekyll gardens
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A Wimbledon home adorned with wisteria and overlooked by a rather marvellous windmill
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'She said it was the most haunted place she had known and asked if we’d seen all the ghosts': Alexander Armstrong on his first house in the country -
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'It's rather like a foghorn reverberating through the halls and corridors': The young custodians of a castle used to shelter Jacobite rebels and its wonderful Victorian organ -
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'A toy cut from cardboard': Glin Castle's renaissance at the hands of an elite garden designer and her A-list husband -
Monarchs, Rothschilds and ruin: The extraordinary tale of one of Britain’s most beautiful moated homes -
Chavenage: The true story of the 'Rivals' house — and it's every bit as dramatic as the plots that Jilly Cooper dreamt up -
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'Well, you will have to burn me in it, boys': The remarkable tale of Glin Castle, and its unlikely survival through two centuries of turmoil -
Mar Vista: 'A million miles away from the dreaded ranges of identikit suburban housing'
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How the British Museum's eight million-strong artefacts inspired the interiors in the new hotel that shares a wall with it -
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Chelsea Flower Show 2026: The art of the hand and why it is so precious -
How to make the most out of small spaces using bright colours, according to interior designers -
Corinne Julius: Heritage craft is under serious threat because young people are discouraged from working with their hands -
George Saumarez Smith: ‘My sketchbooks are full of measured drawings of buildings from all over the world’ -
How the late great Lee Alexander McQueen is supporting the next generation of fearless artists with the renovation of two listed townhouses in Tottenham -
Timeless, sustainable, and with understated style: Why go to Carrara when you can shop British stone? -
'There is much to be said for decorating slowly and allowing layers to build up gradually': Country Life's Chelsea Flower Show stand designer opens the doors to his own Winchester home
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Has ‘gravel gardening’ ever been as perfectly presented? What we really thought about the 2026 RHS Chelsea Flower Show -
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These rarely-seen photographs of the Prince’s Palace of Monaco were taken by a world-renowned photographer and rediscovered in the Country Life Archive -
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What is everyone talking about this week: Never mind the footy — come and play Cham'Pong instead
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Will AI be the saving grace of Britain's beloved hedgehogs?
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‘We thought they could be a lovely gift for our daughter-in-law’: How an unsuspecting couple found £11,000 worth of cat paintings in a skip -
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It's a Henry Moore summer in the gardens of England
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Six Senses London hotel review: Sense and serenity in the city -
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No shoes please, we're French: The seaside gallery celebrating Pop Art — and you have to look round barefoot -
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Holidays good for your mental health, say scientists, in surprise to absolutely no-one
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How to have the perfect picnic in a pinch, according to Country Life -
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The art of the great British summer picnic, as described by Tom Parker Bowles -
'I’ve sat structural engineering exams, but nothing compared with this': How to become a honey sommelier -
Marcus Wareing: ‘I’ve sacrificed more than any other chef’ -
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